In the flashback to Ted remembering the time they helped Lilly shoplift beer, when they drove up in their old POS car, you could hear 500 Miles playing. That was a callback to the episode about that car and how the tape player was busted and had a cassette single of that song stuck in there so that was all they could listen to.

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In the flashback to Ted remembering the time they helped Lilly shoplift beer, when they drove up in their old POS car, you could hear 500 Miles playing. That was a callback to the episode about that car and how the tape player was busted and had a cassette single of that song stuck in there so that was all they could listen to.

Saw Cobie Smolders on a show last week and she mentioned she was sad that they wouldn't be working together after next year...

I don't think it's been officially confirmed but I believe that's the assumption. I relieve Segel's been ready to leave for his movie career for quite some time.

And if not they're really going to have to address the mother one way or another next season. Keep in mind they recently did a "flash forward" to three years from now and Ted's had his daughter. If we keep with the timelines you'd have to imagine that the pregnancy would take place in the 2014-15 season, so unless they want to spring a, "So I knocked your mom up and we had to get married, and that's how I met your mother," surprise on us, we're going to have to meet the mother next season for any kind of realistic courtship.

Does that make sense or is that nonsensical rambling?

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I don't think it's been officially confirmed but I believe that's the assumption. I relieve Segel's been ready to leave for his movie career for quite some time.

And if not they're really going to have to address the mother one way or another next season. Keep in mind they recently did a "flash forward" to three years from now and Ted's had his daughter. If we keep with the timelines you'd have to imagine that the pregnancy would take place in the 2014-15 season, so unless they want to spring a, "So I knocked your mom up and we had to get married, and that's how I met your mother," surprise on us, we're going to have to meet the mother next season for any kind of realistic courtship.

Does that make sense or is that nonsensical rambling?

Makes perfect sense. They've spent seven seasons drilling into us that Ted is a romantic and that he's looking for "the one" and that he wants to get married and settle down. There's no way he then just knocks up some girl and decides to get married on a whim to someone he hasn't had a long courtship with.

In the flashback to Ted remembering the time they helped Lilly shoplift beer, when they drove up in their old POS car, you could hear 500 Miles playing. That was a callback to the episode about that car and how the tape player was busted and had a cassette single of that song stuck in there so that was all they could listen to.

Saw Segel on one of the talk shows and he showed that clip, except it was a blooper and when he was supposed to peel out and take off, he stalled it out.

Makes perfect sense. They've spent seven seasons drilling into us that Ted is a romantic and that he's looking for "the one" and that he wants to get married and settle down. There's no way he then just knocks up some girl and decides to get married on a whim to someone he hasn't had a long courtship with.

Totally agree.

Let's take this a little further. The flash forward episode ran in April, which would presume the baby was born in February 2015 (to account for sweeps and everything), and the mother would announce she's pregnant in May 2014 (again, sweeps). So let's say the latest Ted got married was that May 2014 date and the mother announces she's pregnant there. Then the question becomes what is the shortest courtship possible for Ted and the mother before they get married? If we keep going with the sweeps theme, they'd get engaged either in November 2013 or February 2014. That means if we meet the mother in next season's finale, they'd be dating for a year before they got married/announced they were pregnant (not unreasonable at his age). So even if next season isn't the end of the series, unless they stop moving with the current calendar (a BS move), the mother would almost have to be introduced one way or another sometime next year.

I know I'm probably over analyzing this, but work isn't tremendously exciting right now.

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If the discussion above is accurate, then there won't be any episodes that air after May of 2013.

Only if you believe that the show must end when the mother is revealed. I don't think it has to. There have been many episodes that didn't advance the "how I met your mother" story. By your logic, do those episodes not exist?

[Note that I said that the show doesn't have to end when the mother is revealed, not that the show won't end at that point.]

Only if you believe that the show must end when the mother is revealed. I don't think it has to. There have been many episodes that didn't advance the "how I met your mother" story. By your logic, do those episodes not exist?

[Note that I said that the show doesn't have to end when the mother is revealed, not that the show won't end at that point.]

My logic?

The discussion above is that there's only one season left. I wasn't making a point about what they're going to do during that season, other than the point that, if that's true, they're going to have to deviate from the near-real-time timeline if they're going to show us things that happen after May of 2013.

The discussion above is that there's only one season left. I wasn't making a point about what they're going to do during that season, other than the point that, if that's true, they're going to have to deviate from the near-real-time timeline if they're going to show us things that happen after May of 2013.

I thought that the discussion you were referring to was the post immediately before yours. Now I see what you were saying.

I was supremely let down when they revealed the bride was Robin. My wife and I really liked Quinn, she seemed to be a perfect match for Barney. I hate when TV shows do this, spend a bunch of episodes building up a character so the audience likes them, and then ditch them in 1 episode. I assume we'll see some of Quinn next season, but who knows. I'm over Ted & Robin, and Barney & Robin. I don't mind Victoria, but I hate that Ted is back in a relationship that we know goes nowhere.

BTW... was anyone even the least bit surprised when the Robin "reveal" took place?

To me, it was like they foreshadowed it with a giant neon anvil in the few minutes before it happened.

It was so blatant that I was half-expecting it to have been a fake-out and the bride would have been Quinn anyway.

Now if it ended up being Nora.... that would have been a surprise.

Not even close to being surprised. The bride wanting to see Ted was the giveaway, there hasn't been any real relationship between Ted & Nora or Quinn for them to want to see Ted right before their wedding.

I've forgotten - what's the connection between the mother and the wedding?

For some reason, I thought Ted said he met the mother at the wedding, but that may have been a season ago, and I'm probably not remembering it right. Maybe it was more vague, like if not for the wedding, I wouldn't have met...

But if that's the case, then the mother isn't Victoria, right?

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I've forgotten - what's the connection between the mother and the wedding?

For some reason, I thought Ted said he met the mother at the wedding, but that may have been a season ago, and I'm probably not remembering it right. Maybe it was more vague, like if not for the wedding, I wouldn't have met...

But if that's the case, then the mother isn't Victoria, right?

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I really enjoy when we see future-Ted altering the story (like Ted eating a sandwich while Marshall stapled himself) or admitting that he's not sure what happened (like the guard's magic trick at the security checkpoint)